Oh what a glorious kludge. It would make more sense to report total CPU usage as > 100% if the HT cycles were actually doing useful work.
When genuine dual-core CPUs start getting into the market things are going to become _awfully_ messy! Regards Brian Beesley On Thursday 16 December 2004 23:06, Ryan Malayter wrote: > It will never go higher than 50%. Newer Pentium 4s have a 2nd "virtual" > CPU that Windows sees. This feature is called HyperThreading by Intel. > > See here: > http://tinyurl.com/4mdnw > > Prime95 doesn't use the 2nd virtual CPU, so 50% is all you should see, > maximum. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Margulies > > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:58 PM > > To: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list > > Subject: [Prime] Increasing computing fraction for P95 > > > > I'm running Prime 23.8.1 in Windows XP SP2, Pentium 4, 512 MB > > of memory. > > > > In Windows Task Manager, when no other important programs are > > running, I > > see that Prime95.exe has 50% of the processor cycles, with 46% or so > > going to System Idle Process. > > > > Is that optimal? Is it possible, or desirable, to increase the > > allocation of cycles to Prime95? > > > > -- > > Bob Margulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now using Mozilla Thunderbird > > > > www.palosverdes.com/sbcms > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Prime mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
